MN college campus officer shot, wounded; suspect at large

09-13-2017, 01:19 PM

Uniformed, unarmed campus SO at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minn. was shot in the shoulder Tuesday night after confronting someone in a patch of woods on campus. Police searched unsuccessfully for the assailant, lockdown has been lifted. The officer is expected to make a full recovery.

Updated story says that he was arrested because he admitted he shot himself and lied to the police. Apparently he had brought in a gun from home (a violation of policy and maybe the law) and accidentally shot himself and was afraid of getting in trouble for bringing the gun to work.

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Yup, saw that last night. For the campus/neighborhood: Whew. For the profession: Dammit!

It's one dumb thing to break policy by packing heat on an unarmed job.
It's another, remarkably dumberer thing to shoot yourself while playing with it.
Dumberest: top off a dumb evening by triggering a communitywide manhunt in a futile effort to cover it up!